by Don Munson
SYNOPSIS:
Ever hear of uranium "tailings"? It's a fine,
sand-like end product from the dozens of uranium
ore-processing plants scattered throughout the
Far West. Thought to be of no value, or danger,
hundreds of thousands of tons of this material
were dumped on the plains, to be snatched up by
building contractors who used it on construction
jobs-like hospitals, homes, schools and churches.
Now, it's been discovered, the stuff is
radioactively hot and we are facing a catastrophe
of monumental proportions.
In just one city, Grand Junction, Colo., an
